Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah

Sheikh Ubeydullah uprising
	Part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict and Timeline of Kurdish uprisings
	; Map of the uprising, 1880
Date	1879–1881
Location	Ottoman Empire and Iran
Result	Ottoman and Qajar victory Defeat of Sheikh Ubeydullah and his troops; Borders between the Ottoman and Persian Empires were slightly changed; Beginning of the Ottoman centralization policy;
Belligerents
Companions of Ubeydullah; Herki and neighbouring tribes	Ottoman Empire Kurdish volunteers; ; Persia Austrian missionary;
Commanders and leaders
Sheikh Ubeydullah; Sayyid Abdulkadir Taha; Yezdanşêr Ağa; Ibrahim Pasha Milli	Abdul Hamid II; Ibrahim Edhem Pasha; Mustafa Zihni Pasha; Kurt İsmail Pasha; Naser al-Din Shah Qajar; Hasan Ali Khan Garrusi; Albert Joseph Gasteiger
Casualties and losses
Unknown, former Kurdish rebels submerg	Unknown

The Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah refers to a Kurdish uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1879 and Qajar Iran between 1880 and 1881. Both uprising were led by Sheikh Ubeydullah, the leader of the Semdinan Naqshbandi family who claimed descendance from Mohammed through his daughter Fatima.^[3] Thus the family had a considerable influence, disposed over large amounts of donations,^[4] owned several villages in the region^[3] and many Kurdish tribal leaders were devout followers of him.^[5]

The initial cause for the uprisings were the outcome of the Russo-Turkish war in 1877-78 and the Treaty of Berlin^[6] which provided the Christian Armenians and the Nestorians with considerable rights and autonomy, to which he did not agree to.^[6]

^ Bajalan, Djene Rhys, The Kurdish Movement and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1880–1923, pp. 104–137, ISBN 978-1-108-47335-4, retrieved 2024-07-14
^ Ateş, Sabri (2014). "In the Name of the Caliph and the Nation: The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880–81". Iranian Studies. 47 (5): 735–798. ISSN 0021-0862.
^ ^a ^b Özoğlu, Hakan (2004-02-12). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5.
^ Behrendt, Günter (1993). Nationalismus in Kurdistan: Vorgeschichte, Entstehungsbedingungen und erste Manifestationen bis 1925 (in German). Deutsches Orient-Institut. p. 215. ISBN 978-3-89173-029-4.
^ Olson, Robert W. (1989). The emergence of Kurdish nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925. University of Texas Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-292-77619-7.
^ ^a ^b Özoğlu, Hakan (2004), p.74

[1] Bajalan, Djene Rhys, The Kurdish Movement and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1880–1923, pp. 104–137, ISBN 978-1-108-47335-4, retrieved 2024-07-14

[2] Ateş, Sabri (2014). "In the Name of the Caliph and the Nation: The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880–81". Iranian Studies. 47 (5): 735–798. ISSN 0021-0862.

[:0-3] Özoğlu, Hakan (2004-02-12). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5.

[:1-4] Behrendt, Günter (1993). Nationalismus in Kurdistan: Vorgeschichte, Entstehungsbedingungen und erste Manifestationen bis 1925 (in German). Deutsches Orient-Institut. p. 215. ISBN 978-3-89173-029-4.

[:0222-5] Olson, Robert W. (1989). The emergence of Kurdish nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925. University of Texas Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-292-77619-7.

[:2-6] Özoğlu, Hakan (2004), p.74

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